阅读下面短文, 从短文后所给各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白的最佳选项。
The Voice of America began during the World WarⅡ. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international
, American officials believed they should
the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in
. “The
may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA
were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.
After the World WarⅡended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s
had to be changed,
the Soviet Union became enemy of America．They wanted to
Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.
In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was
“ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959．VOA knew that many listeners did not know
English to completely understand its
English broadcast. So VOA
a simpler kind of English,
uses about 1,500 words and is spoken
of course, it is special English.
In the
of most VOA listeners, the most
program is the news report. News from around the world
into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in
cities and also from other
like BBC．VOA writers and editors use these materials to
news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.
| 小题1: | | A．business | B．culture | C． support | D．information |
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| 小题2: | | A．reply | B．answer | C．join | D．interrupt |
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| 小题3: | | A．same | B．short | C．English | D．German |
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| 小题4: | | A．news | B．problems | C．effects | D．opinions |
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| 小题5: | | A．stations | B．news | C．announcers | D．officials |
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| 小题6: | | A．home | B．position | C．purpose | D．results |
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| 小题7: | | A．if | B．supposing | C．considering | D．in order that |
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| 小题8: | | A．reach | B．satisfy | C．attack | D．support |
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| 小题9: | | A．known | B．reported | C．called | D．printed |
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| 小题10: | | A．American | B．British | C．standard | D．enough |
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| 小题11: | | A．normal | B．fast | C．good | D．exact |
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| 小题12: | | A．invented | B．discovered | C．taught | D．stopped |
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| 小题14: | | A．slowly | B．rapidly | C．normally | D．loudly |
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| 小题15: | | A．pleasure | B．course | C．opinion | D．advice |
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| 小题16: | | A．difficult | B．important | C．various | D．common |
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| 小题17: | | A．flies | B．sends | C．delivers | D．pasts |
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| 小题18: | | A．all | B．major | C．American | D．news |
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| 小题19: | | A．broadcasts | B．forms | C．newspapers | D．countries |
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| 小题20: | | A．broadcast | B．announce | C．translate | D．prepare |
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